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and the Academy was thus constituted. The 
academicians afterwards met and chose a coun- 
cil to assist the president, and visitors to super- 
intend the schools in three branches of art, 
painting, sculpture, and architecture. Thus, 
on the 10th Deceinber, 1768, under the title 
of the Royal Academy of the Arts in London, 
that Institution, which has done more to excite 
a taste for the fine arts in this country, than any 
similar institution ever did in any other, was 
finally formed and established.